Psychiatrist says killer of two strangers not criminally responsible

Richard Edwin told a psychiatrist that he executed two strangers on the streets of Toronto because he believed white supremacists were coming from Ukraine to kill him and they’d drop “air bombs” on St. Lucia or Jamaica if he didn’t.

When a man sitting on a tree stump told him to “shoot that guy,” he did. And two days later, when they told him to “do more,” he obeyed once again.

Dr. Lisa Ramshaw testified Thursday that she believes Edwin, 43, should be found not criminally responsible for the two shocking murders two days apart in April 2022 because he was suffering from a psychosis, likely schizophrenia, and “more likely than not” couldn’t understand the moral wrongfulness of shooting 19-year-old international student Kartik Vasudev six times outside Sherbourne TTC station and then shoo